On 08/25/2011 09:54 AM, Rick Clark wrote: > I have a suggestion. Let's let the distros do whatever they want. Yes. > While we need a development platform, we are not required to provide > packages for each distribution. We got where we are today, because > we we have many ubuntu devs that are also openstack devs. Whether > Ubuntu takes the packages from debian or spins their own, is not our > concern. > > Even if we develop on Ubuntu at the end of a release, we could just > release our code with dependencies. What comes next is up to each > distribution. I'm pretty much in agreement here- other than my (now easily old and boring) arguments that it is incumbent on us to provide an output product for people to be able to consume. > This is much more in line with other upstream projects. http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/debian/ http://download.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/LATEST/ http://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/debian http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/debian-sysvinit http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian I could list more ... but I think my point is made here. Monty